There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
—Bruce Lee (1940–73) American Martial Artist, Actor, Philosopher
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
—Theophrastus (c.372–c.286 BCE) Greek Philosopher
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
—Samuel Butler
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
For every promise, there is a price to pay. If the promise is clear, the price is easy.
—Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
—Karl Marx (1818–1883) German Philosopher, Economist
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
—C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
—French Proverb
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
One cannot but wonder at this constantly recurring phrase getting something for nothing, as if it were the peculiar and perverse ambition of disturbers of society. Except for our animal outfit, practically all we have is handed us gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary flatter himself that he invented the art of writing or the printing press, or discovered his religious, economic, and moral convictions, or any of the devices which supply him with meat and raiment or any of the sources of such pleasure as he may derive from literature or the fine arts? In short, civilization is little else than getting something for nothing.
—James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936) American Historian
Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
—Spanish Proverb
Something you don’t want is dear at any price.
—Common Proverb
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.
—Joseph Campbell (1904–87) American Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
—Buddhist Teaching
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
—Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1921–2000) American Sociologist
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
—Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach
I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
—Mike Ditka (b.1939) American Sportsperson
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
Expenditures rise to meet income.
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–93) British Historian, Scholar, Novelist, Satirist
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur